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Continue reading →: Spiti Journey, Part 1, Return to the MountainsBuilt Up Hardly anything good or great in life happens without a great deal of difficulties,anxiety and trepidation.My disappointment in the end of June about the failure to go climb a 7000er was followed by 10 days of frantic research,inquiries,phone calls ,email correspondence and some real hard convincing and arguing…
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Continue reading →: Bouldering in Pune, December 2010It’s a cold December morning and Viru shines on the rocks and in the pictures. The team has become larger now. It’s a lot of fun to be here and make your body sore over 3-4 hours of bouldering. Pictures of another quarry session a week before we are to…
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Continue reading →: Bouldering in Pune, November 2010Uploading a few more pictures of the Fergusson College quarry.
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Continue reading →: Enduro 3, July 201026th July, 2010 – I get a call from my trekker friend Drushti, asking me if I’d be able to be part of her team in the night adventure race called Enduro3 (o3 for Ozone). I think for a while, decline the offer considering my current lack of fitness. But…
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Continue reading →: Bouldering in Pune, April 2010Location: Quarry on the hill behind Fergusson College, Pune
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Continue reading →: Lingana Climb, January 2010Some of the text below was scribbled during the climb and some later. So the tense in which it is now apparent can be a little confusin at times. I have referred to people by their initials. S sir is Sachin Gaikwad,s sir is Sagar sir, Mr.P is Pawar sir…
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Continue reading →: Alang, Madan, Kulang TrekDay 1, 25th Dec 09: After an eventful night journey in a tempo traveller, which involved a 3-hour delay and an exhausted driver who had to wake himself up occasionally, we were ready to start our trek for Alang, Madan, and Kulang forts. The road head was a village named…
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Continue reading →: Aurangabad – City of GatesMy hometown, Aurangabad, is a place full of history. It was founded in 1610 by Malik Amber, the prime ,inister of the then Nizam of Ahmednagar, on the site of a village called Kharki (now pronounced as Khadki). Malik Ambar was succeeded by his son Fateh Khan, who changed the…
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Continue reading →: Urban Birds-A Brief DatabaseWhat you see in this post is an attempt at creating a brief database of my bird sightings. This database is meant to help in quick identification of some fairly commonly found birds,based on the pictures and distinguishing characteristic features(wherever mentioned).I have refrained from giving out detailed description regarding shape,plumage…
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